Fresh fighting has erupted in the Somali capital between Islamist militants and government troops following Tuesday’s militant attack on a Mogadishu hotel that killed 31 people.

The French news agency reports at least six civilians were killed in the latest violence.

The al-Qaida linked al-Shabaab insurgent group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack on the Muna Hotel and said lawmakers staying there were the targets. Four members of the Somali parliament were killed.

The hotel is near the presidential palace in a small part of Mogadishu still under government control.

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The Islamist fighters of al-Shabaab have Tuesday claimed the responsibility of the deadly attack targeted to Muna hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu that left the lives more than 30 including parliamentarians.

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Al-Shabaab fighters shot dead 30 people, including six members of parliament, in a suicide attack on a Mogadishu hotel Tuesday, Somalia’s deputy prime minister said.

The two Islamist militants disguised as government security forces then blew themselves up to avoid arrest after the attack on the hotel, which was crowded with Somali officials.

“Thirty people died in this ambush. Six of them are members of the Somali parliament and four are Somali government civil servants,” Abdirahman Haji Adab Ibbi told reporters after the deadly rampage at Hotel Mona.

“The 20 others are innocent civilians who died in this horrible incident,” he added.

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Massive explosions have ripped through the al-Shabaab group’s largest headquarters in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, leaving 25 dead and 30 injured.

The simultaneous blasts hit the base in the southern sector of the city on Friday, a senior al-Shabaab official told Press TV on condition of anonymity.

Shortly after the explosions, heavy clashes broke out between the fighters and African Union (AU) troops.

Separately, at least 22 people have been killed during fresh clashes between local fighters linked to al-Shabaab and government forces in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland.

Fighting erupted on Friday, in the mountainous region of Galagala, between fighters loyal to local militant leader Sheikh Mohamed Said Atom and Puntland government forces.

Another 40, most of them soldiers, were also wounded.

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A rebel group operating in Somaliland’s southern region of Buuhoodle is said to have disintegrated after the group failed to resolve internal rift among its senior leaders.

The SSC group, abbreviation for the disputed –Sool, Sanaag and Cayn regions who threatened to launch a violent campaign against Somaliland several months ago is reportedly have defied their own leadership.

The group’s main commander, Kayse Abdi Yusuf, issued a press statement on Tuesday insisting he has formed his own rebel wing and is no longer following orders from senior rebel leadership.

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Fresh clashes erupted Friday in the northern breakaway Somalia region of Puntland with Al-Qaida linked militants, leaving at least seven combatants dead and nine wounded, officials and witnesses said.

Fighting erupted when militants led by local warlord Mohamed Said Atom tried to recapture a military base they had lost to the Puntland forces in clashes on Wednesday near the Galgala mountains.

“The terrorists launched a hit and run attack on one of our bases near Galgala. They were defeated and four of their militants killed,” said Colonel Omar Abdulahi, a Puntland security official.

“Unfortunately we lost two soldiers and three others were injured.”

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Government forces in the semiautonomous Somali region of Puntland have made two military offensives against allies of the Shabaab militant group, trying to drive back insurgent fighters who have been gaining ground in a comparatively stable area of northeastern Somalia.

Officials in Puntland said that at least 18 militants and 3 government soldiers were killed Sunday in fierce fighting in mountain villages along the northern coast, near the port town of Boosaaso.

Hundreds of government troops, along with dozens of armed civilians who volunteered to join the fight, stormed the rebel-controlled villages, Puntland officials said.

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